The last week has been filled with an incredibly amount of stress and frustration. Of course that then feeds into the anxiety and depression, which increases the stress, and bam! Welcome back to the vicious cycle.
I have many therapy tools to help with the anxiety and depression, and it’s certainly time to put some into use. Gratitude lists are a tool that I often see used particularly in bullet journals. Today is the day to begin one: fostering the positives in my life rather than only the negatives.
Why don’t you make one for yourself today as well, dear traveller? Together let’s find the things worth continuing on for. Below you’ll find the start of my gratitude list, thirty reasons my life is worth living.
- Cloudy and overcast days
- Friends who listen to rants
- The warmth of an early day sun
- The incredible hard work of my staff members
- YouTubers
- My dogs
- Pancakes
- A delicious cup of tea in the mornings
- My spouse playing video games with me
- Volunteers and donations
- Wonderful books, new and re-reads
- Cute shirts
- Amazing therapists
- Couples counseling
- The Oxford comma
- DnD groups
- Brand new contacts
- When my favoured songs play on the radio
- Starbomb
- Brushing my teeth
- The moment when I realize I’m recovered from a sickness or injury
- Unsolicited hugs from my Spawn
- Writing the stories hidden within my mind
- The sound of pages printing
- Peel “pr0n” (This is not adult-rated content! lol)
- Puns
- Giving my dogs new bones
- Wood turning pens
- Sewing dragons
- The hope that my blog posts will someday help others